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Council debates mobile-home waiver policy and denies temporary waiver in contested Beachwood Ridge case
Summary
Council members debated removing a long-standing mobile-home waiver list from the code and heard a contested hardship waiver request for a manufactured ADU in Beachwood Ridge; council declined to grant a short-term waiver after divided votes and procedural discussion about enforcement.
The Livingston Parish Council spent significant time Thursday debating changes to a parish ordinance that restricts mobile and manufactured homes in named subdivisions and considering a hardship waiver request for a manufactured auxiliary dwelling on a lot in the Beechwood Ridge subdivision.
Councilwoman Sandifer and others urged caution and proposed tabling a broader change to the ordinance to allow additional legal review and to ensure zoning and subdivision restrictions are not placed in conflict. “If you take this out, then everyone will have to come to you for a waiver,” the planning director warned, describing how the current waiver list has been used to avoid duplicate review of previously granted determinations.
The council then…
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